Loured

Word LOURED
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Definitions and meanings of "Loured"

What do we mean by loured?

To frown; to look sullen.

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

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The word "loured" in example sentences

The last person he addressed was Ballenkeiroch, who, remembering the death of his son, loured on him with a look of savage defiance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Countess, fatigued and discontented, received the politeness of the abbess with careless haughtiness, and had followed her, with indolent steps, to the parlour, over which the painted casements and wainscot of larch-wood threw, at all times, a melancholy shade, and where the gloom of evening now loured almost to darkness. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A projecting low-browed arch, which had loured over many an innocent, and many a guilty head, in similar circumstances, now spread its dark frowns over that of Nigel. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This passage is in blank verse, that is, iambic pentameter, which is to say in a five-stress line composed of five 'feet' ( 'penta' means 'five') that move iambically from an unstressed to a stressed syllable: 'And all the clouds that loured upon our house'. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

Along the hulls of lean privateers rows of gun-ports stared hungrily at rotund merchantmen, and here and there the dark even lines of a heavy warship loured over lesser craft with masterful menace. ❋ Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- (1992)

The clouds sat heavily on the land and loured at it. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1988)

The Athe - nians were enemies to the Thebanes, and many greate bat - tailes were assaied of theim and foughten: and often tymes the Athenians felt many bitter stormes, and fortune loured of them, he beyng so valiaunt a capitain. ❋ Richard Rainolde (N/A)

Clouds loured in the heavens, but the way was pleasant enough despite the absence of the sun. ❋ Derleth, August (1945)

Indeed, a darkness, next to the fog of this awful day, loured over the whole region. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Thereupon, she went from them; and the two, Feshnavat and Shibli Bagarag, feared greatly being left with the Genie, for he became all colours, and loured on them each time that he ceased sneezing. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Then he coaxed her to give him the Jewel, and she would not; he commanded her peremptorily, and she hesitated; so he grasped her tightened hand, and his face loured with wrath; yet she withheld the Jewel from him laughing; and he was stirred to extreme wrath, and drew from his girdle the naked scimitar, and menaced her with it. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still. ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Hall's countenance loured as he read this note, and then tore it into fragments and gave them to the wind, but instantly relapsed into the merry mood as Bob ran at him with a stick, exactly imitating Lee's murderous thrust. ❋ Unknown (1845)

While he progressed, the old veteran's brow at first loured, but presently cleared away again, and by the time Hall had finished, he was laughing quite heartily. ❋ Unknown (1845)

He loured on him, and asked who taught him courtesy. ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)

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